
![]() Los Angeles Times | Samsung reduces its LTE chip cost by half CNET by Lynn La February 6, 2012 5:52 PM PST For every new iteration of mobile phones, it's easy to assume that products are getting pricier because the insides are getting just as expensive. A sample picture of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus' baseband chip. Samsung March 22 event smells of Galaxy S III reveal Google limits Android support for CDMA phones Galaxy Nexus Gets Fixed; Update Makes Ice Cream Sandwich a Little Sweeter |
![]() Los Angeles Times | Super Bowl XLVI sets new tweet-per-second record Los Angeles Times By Nathan Olivarez-Giles If you haven't heard, Sunday's Super Bowl was a major hit -- 12233 tweets per second, in fact. The big game, officialy known as Super Bowl XLVI, was a record setter for the popular social network Twitter and, as noted over on ... Twitter's Ad Scrimmage Lets You Relive Super Bowl Commercials Twitter sees record activity during 2012 Super Bowl Twitter allows fans to relive Super Bowl ads |
![]() New York Times | Those Millions on Facebook? Some May Not Actually Visit New York Times By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Kimihiro Hoshino/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFacebook's “like” logo at the entrance to the company's headquarters. Some of those “likes” from “active users” are coming from other sites. On the first page of Facebook's ... Prepare Your Business for Facebook Mobile Ads Facebook Is Bringing Ads to Mobile Apps Facebook looks to make mobile click |
![]() Daily Mail | Scientists recreate noises from Jurassic era The State Column Writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team explained how they used high-resolution images of the extinct creature's wings to count the number and spacings of teeth on each file. Each had around a hundred tiny teeth ... Jurassic cricket's song recreated Jurassic chirp: scientists recreate ancient cricket song Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes Back to Life |
![]() ABC2 News | How Apple cuts costs in building its gadgets CNN By Mark Milian, CNN Workers labor on a production line at Foxconn's Longhua plant, which employs 300000 people and makes products for Apple. (CNN) -- On the backs of iPods, iPhones and iPads, and on the bottom of Mac laptops, an inscription reads: ... Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture CNN investigates Foxconn iPad factory conditions, Apple responds iPad manufacturer Foxconn under fire again, Apple responds |
![]() Computerworld | Microsoft drops Start button from Windows 8, reports say Computerworld By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft will scratch the 17-year-old Start button from Windows 8, according to reports based on a purported leak of the latest beta build. First reported by The Verge yesterday and then followed by other blogs -- all ... Microsoft May Ditch Start Button in Windows 8 Windows 8 Start button removed by Microsoft in 'Consumer Preview' Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion |
![]() Fox News | Google's Solve for X Website Goes Online Tom's Guide Google is expected to unveil a new website that is apparently designed as a communication channel for "moonshot thinking" and solutions that "could help billions of people". A YouTube video for the "Solve for X" website describes a thinktank approach ... Google Unveils 'Secret Lab' For Radical Ideas Google wants to make sci-fi a reality with “Solve for X,” a conference for ... Google unveils 'Solve for X' project |
![]() Fox News | Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen 'Land of the Lost'? Fox News A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious US colleagues -- and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown. Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth's oldest super-clean water system reached Russian Scientists Drill to Sub-Glacial Antarctic Lake Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years |
![]() Wall Street Journal | Motorola Seeks Slice of iPhone, iPad Sales Wall Street Journal By IAN SHERR AND HARRIET TORRY Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. asked Apple Inc. to pay a potential royalty of 2.25% of sales for some iPhones and iPads last year, representing possibly billions of dollars in licensing fees. Motorola makes Apple pull iPads and iPhones in Germany Motorola Mobility, Nikon, MSF, EFF: Intellectual Property Apple to put iPads, iPhones back on shelves in Germany |
![]() V3.co.uk | EMC to Flesh out VFCache With VMware Integration, Other Additions PCWorld By Stephen Lawson, IDG News EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media. EMC Offers SSD Cache To Boost Server Speed EMC crashes the server flash party EMC Rolls Out PCIe Flash-Based Storage Technology |

